Ok Grishka. Max can't afford to run a website where I can use pictorial rather than scriptive posts, otherwise I would do. I have a programme that suggests pictorial and easy read, as I used to write reports on residential facilities for health related challenged people...

So whilst I answered your question before you asked it, I shall humour you and repeat my stance.

I don't know what a humanist wedding would be like? Not being a member of their club, it wouldn't feel right anyway. I married once in a church and once in a hotel. Both were good, both had Bach. I would have liked a church wedding for the second time, but apparently, picking and choosing Christianity is only allowed if you actually call yourself a Christian, even if you don't believe it. Me? I prefer to be honest. I know it is fairy stories that serve a purpose, especially for those in need of a comfort blanket, but I also accept that there is a whiff of pious hypocrisy in using the words with your fingers firmly crossed.


The Church of England has spent the last few hundred years ingratiating itself to the point of being an aspect of society, including in the secular sense, through the Lords Spiritual and inviting the vicar to indulge in village pump affairs.

To say that having built up the tradition, you then restrict on the basis of belief is a bit rich. It may seem refreshing to hear Joe Offer and Keith of La La Land state that the bible isn't literal, but to then piously accuse people of insulting their belief beggars belief. It may insult their choices on the menu, but the minute you pick and choose what to believe, your stance "as a Christian" is meaningless. There is only one Christian on these threads a far as I can see, and he isn gong to convince me of any argument any time soon....

So why you want me to comment on humanist issues is beyond me? I don't need their services. I have churches that will take my money if I want to be traditional, if I look hard enough. I have local government registrars who can make weddings real and legal in a hotel, (and a well stocked bar in our case.)

I said which is the best religion at the very beginning of this thread if you bother to look....